Private Speech posted:

One time my mum (who doesn't live in the UK) called me while I was waiting on a bus to get home from work and we spoke in my native Czech, as one, you know, would; and this old woman leaned out of a window above me and screamed she's calling the police so that the immigration comes and gets me. I hastily went away after that beacuse gently caress getting detained by them even for a bit.

I've also had a number of both more and less overt complaints from neighbours about the same thing, that is hearing me on the phone, be it through a wall or on the street, speaking another language with my mum.

The level of UK cuntiness about foreign languages is simply astounding. And these were very middle class areas in major cities, too.

I've also had a drunk guy shout at me "what loving right do you have to be here" once.

e: All the same I kinda like Britain. Must be a masochist I guess.

Communist Thoughts posted:

i'm struggling not to be jealous of sanders success after our own failure, but i should just be happy instead

*struggles to channel an unbritish emotion*

SelenicMartian posted:

When will they designate NI as a quarantine zone and force a hard land border?

Chris James 2 posted:

https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1245623432609325059

oliwan posted:

I'm just a passive observer but if no one cares about your posts in the UK thread, in fact most absolutely hate you in the UK thread because your posts are really dumb, and you are not even from the UK... you should probably not post in the UK thread.

Squizzle posted:

*to the tune of oh, jeremy corbyn* oh, coronavirus

DemoneeHo posted:

So i'm a dumb idiot american with no idea how other countries make government happen. What happens if Bojo dies from covo? Is there a deputy PM who takes over? Do tories hold a snap election and put Rees-Mogg in charge?

Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:

https://twitter.com/DavidJBradley1/status/1254404684258914307

Bust Rodd posted:

I know it’s not a 1-1 analogue, but isn’t that like if a bunch of rude, racist Texans voted for Texas to secede, won the vote, and then moved to Mexico? I just don’t understand, why vote leave and then move? what is the cultural touchstone im missing?

V. Illych L. posted:

lol turning this unambiguously bad thing into a culture war issue is so cynical and also incredibly brilliant

V. Illych L. posted:

a police murdered a (pretty, white, non-paup) woman and a bunch of other women organised a vigil, which the police promptly assaulted and broke up by force with no apparent provocation

it was bad enough that the tabloids couldn't find a way to spin it at short notice and so just tried ignoring it

Barry Foster posted:

said murder and assaults have been rolled into the culture war because the police decided to make a big show of protecting the churchill statue from roving gangs of women, so now protesting women being murdered or assaulted is anti-statue

Dravs posted:

The culture war happening between people who are pro police murder and mutilation and against it is pretty much the same people as for and against Brexit anyway. Also the same people as for and against public execution etc.

It's lead poisoned sponge brains all the way down.

Barry Foster posted:

I was honestly just trying to provide clarification, chill out, drat

quote:

You lived there for a long time. How do you feel about the city now and the UK in these post-Brexit times?

I have a good relationship with London. My son still lives there. I moved there in the late 1980s. I lived in the city when Margaret Thatcher insisted on forging her special relationship with Europe – or rather the relationship was less important than having her will and ideas imposed. She was instrumental in shaping that union, imposing her idiosyncrasies, the special treatment, as opposed to the regular riff-raff in Europe. She got it her way, in the British interest. But apparently that’s not good enough any more. So… I don’t envy you.

No. As a fully paid-up Remainer, I can only apologise.

Shooting yourself in the knee with a gun full of buckshot makes more sense. [A pause.] They’re talking about fishing. There was a war between English and French fishermen in the 13th century. Let’s get the Navy involved again! If I was a French fisherman I’d sail into British waters just to see a battleship confront myself. The English can go back to the 12th century if they want to. Let Jacob Rees-Mogg tell them what to do.

bedpan posted:

I've no doubt these men all have very strong opinions on the importance of Britain's nuclear deterrent

Jose posted:

it dont matter posted:

https://twitter.com/KarlTurnerMP/status/1376144165386477569

shirts and skins posted:

I'm not familiar with the politics of Scottish football - are Rangers usually associated with racismBritish chauvinism?

quote:

Although lower income levels are generally associated with poor health and shorter lifespan, epidemiologists have argued that poverty alone does not appear to account for the disparity found in Glasgow.

forkboy84 posted:

Then everyone assumes you moved to the city to study at Glasgow Uni...Which is why you tell them you follow Ross County, it just confuses them.


Glasgow is genuinely one of the nicest, friendliest places I've been, I absolutely love it, warts & all. I lived for years in Ibrox, in an area that is in the top 10% of most deprived places in Scotland. Never had any problems. And it's not like I didn't go out. Plenty times I would walk home from the city centre after a night out through these apparently scary places.

It's not perfect, poo poo, while I was there there was a minor health crisis because some oval office had spiked a load of heroin with anthrax & so lots of people were dying quite unpleasantly. There's gross income inequality & large chunks do feel left behind, but the same is true of parts of Edinburgh, Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee, Perth, Stirling, or any town of a reasonable size. Huge swathes of Scotland are still left behind are the death/destruction of heavy industry, be it mining, shipbuilding, metalworking, it's all hosed. Little wonder folk seek solace in the stables of deep fried food & heroin. Still love it.

Grape posted:

People in old world ethnic conflict areas like that all look exactly the same, and are all extremely insistent that the the other group looks way different.
It's quite the thing.